The Tiger Who Couldn't Be Bothered

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BfK No. 45 - July 1987

Cover StoryThe startling illustration on our cover is by John Marriott and is taken from the cover of the paperback edition of The Willow Street Kids (Piccolo, 0 330 29701 5, £1.75). We are grateful to Piccolo for help in using this illustration.

The Tiger Who Couldn't Be Bothered

Tigers have a reputation for being magnificent striped creatures with a fierce growl and a menacing prowl. Not so the tiger in this story. He was so dirty you couldn't see his stripes and growling and prowling were beyond him; in fact the other animals didn't believe he was a tiger at all. When his appearance is temporarily restored after an inadvertent dip in the river he continues to laze about, though he does prove a suitable subject for a quartet of passing photographers. And in the end it is their work in the shape of an advertisement poster which transforms him from being a 'bwowler' into a magnificent tiger. Todd and Biro are a well-established partnership and this neatly constructed and drolly illustrated story should prove as popular as any of their previous efforts with young listeners and readers.